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I assigned drive letter Z:\ to my DrivePool drive. Yesterday I noticed that files were disappearing from the Z:\ drive. When I searched for them using Everything, I found that DrivePool had created a folder on Z:\ called PoolPart.5c7f2eb1-1b02-4f73-ae4b-beb3508b9723, and it was moving the files there. (I think it's moving the files as it's rebalancing the DrivePool.) Any suggestions about how to stop this? I don't think I can simply move the files out of the new PoolPart folder back to their original locations without causing havoc.

Thank you once again. Everything seemed okay when I looked at the drive in Windows (Properties, Security, Advanced), but diskpart showed that it had been set to readonly. As soon as I cleared that, Drivepool started balancing the drive the way it should have. I can't tell you how relieved I am to see DrivePool working the way it should again. Thank you. (I'm going to replace the drive as soon as DrivePool finishes what it's doing.)

The PoolPart folders on my drives have long hex names (like PoolPart.c8ca7767-4b41-45b9-8fa4-ee8a15763b37). If I wanted to move some of the subfolders to another drive, how would I figure out the equivalent poolpart.2 to that poolpart.1? I think part of the reason DrivePool won't balance (that is, move files off the 90% full drive to the other drives) is that there's something fishy going on with the drive. Windows says there's an error that needs to be repaired, but chkdsk doesn't see any error and all the SMART results are reasonable. At the same time, both Windows and chkdsk say the drive is write-protected, which isn't true. I think these problems may be related to the disk being so full, so I'm trying to get data off of it as quickly as I can. Thanks again.

Thank you for your suggestions and assistance. The drives are plugged into a USB hub, and I think that may be where the problem is (although I replaced the hub a few months ago).

I'm running DrivePool in Windows 11. I have 14 HDDs, and DrivePool has combined them into a single "drive". Most of the drives are 75% full, but one is over 90% full. (The combined drive is about 75% full.) Every time DrivePool starts balancing the drive, something interrupts it -- usually Windows 11 stops recognizing one of the HDDs -- and the balancing starts again. The bottom line is that DrivePool isn't moving the data it needs to in order to balance the drives. Is there any way I can move files from the 90% drive to one of the other drives to balance the files manually? If I move files, will DrivePool be able to find them? If I can't do that, any suggestions about how to force DrivePool to start moving files from the 90% drive to some of the other drives? Thank you.

I hadn't thought about that, but it makes sense. From the perspective of the storage provider, the files are uniform blocks of gibberish. The files aren't uploaded in the size or format they had on my PC. Thank you.

My pool includes both physical drives (HDDs) and online storage (managed by StableBit CloudDrive). My storage provider limits files to 5GB. I see that DrivePool will let me set up File Placement rules based on the file name, but is there any way to set up a File Placement rule to save only files smaller than 5G to the online "drive" in the pool, never bigger files? Thank you.